Host-parasite manipulation or Crib:A female wasp punctures a female ladybug at her bellyto paralyze her and to implant an egg. The wasp larva feastson the ladybug’s abdomen until it tears her belly opento begin cocooning, as a prepupa, between her legs.

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To bring (the wings) close to the body, as a bird on alighting

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Mary Ruefle leans forward to say, You can colonizea reader the way some colonize an animal or a country.

Maria Fernanda Snellings is a 2015 Sarah Lawrence College graduate and a VONA/Voices fellow. Selected by MacArthur Genius Award grantee Terrance Hayes, she was the only undergraduate finalist for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Amistad Award for College Writers in Poetry. Her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik’s poems are published in The Wide Shore’s 2016 issue.